Strictly speaking cousins: where 'cousin' is defined as broadly as both person's have a parent who is part of an immediate family? or whose parent has the same parents? very slight but important difference

Are Tom and Willy two different people? to answer this would give away the answer to the puzzle. Anyone wanting the sp0i1er, e-mail meHumans? yes Boys? yes

Is willy a nickname? no Is tom? not really Is tom's nickname Willy? no

By Benjamin Moore (Zenith) on Friday, May 27, 2005 - 08:35 am:

Strictly speaking cousins: where 'cousin' is defined as broadly as both person's have a parent who is part of an immediate family? don't know exactly what you mean, but I don't think it's thisor whose parent has the same parents? if I understand you correctly, it's thisvery slight but important difference

To expand this question: Is it possible for Tom and Willy to occupy exactly the same space at the same time?

If no, is this for physical reasons (e.g. because no two separate human beings can do such a thing)? Or mental reasons (e.g. they are both multi-personalities, and so only one can be 'dominant', the other would have to be 'dormant')?

Strictly speaking cousins: where 'cousin' is defined as broadly as both person's have a parent who is part of an immediate family? or whose parent has the same parents? very slight but important difference

The "fathers" of Tom and Willy are brothers. I put "fathers" in quotes for the same reason as I said they were stickly speaking cousins. The reason is part of the puzzle